Popular Nigerian Comedian and content creator, Chukwuemeka Emmanuel, popularly known as Sabinus, has slammed a one billion naira suit on Friesland Foods Wamco Nigeria Plc, the makers of Peak Milk.
The comedian accused the company of using his trademark ‘something hooge’ without his consent.
Sabinus, addressing the company through his lawyer, Stanley Alieke, noted that the phrase was his registered trademark and therefore, demanded ₦1 billion in compensation and damages.
The legal notice cited by Affrica Daily News, New York on Monday reads:
“Our client briefed us and we believe
The Supreme Pontiff, Pope Francis, has revealed that he will on August 27, 2022, create new 21 new cardinals amongst who is Most Revd (Dr) Peter Ebere Okpaleke of Ekwulobia Diocese.
Okpaleke, it would be recalled, was appointed as Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Ahiara in 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI, but was rejected by the diocese.
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Following his appointment to the see of Ekwulobia on March 5, 2020, Okpaleke was installed on April 29, 2020, as the bishop of the new Ekwulobia diocese having renounced …
Residents in Kabba, Kogi State, have been thrown into confusion following an explosion which has left an undisclosed number of people dead and many people injured.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the ugly explosion occurred opposite Mannajot Petrol Station on Sunday evening, with a yet-to-be-ascertained number of people feared injured.
Details of the blast are still sketchy but a security source linked the bomb explosion to the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād.
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a review of the entirety of the response by local and federal authorities to last week’s school shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
In a statement on Sunday that was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York, DOJ spokesperson Anthony Coley said that Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin had asked the department to conduct a Critical Incident Review.
Coley also said that the DOJ’s Office of Community Oriented Policing will handle the investigation.
‘The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses …
Lithuanians have donated more than five million euros to a public fundraising campaign that was set up to buy a combat drone for Ukrainian forces fighting Russia’s invasion.
The money needed to buy a Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drone was raised in three-and-a-half days which came to an end yesterday evening in the country of 2.8 million people.
“Probably for the first time in history, citizens of one state can buy and donate such heavy weapons to another state,” said influencer Andrius Tapinas, founder of the online broadcaster Laisves TV which launched the initiative.
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The government of Kano State has approved the renaming of Kano State University of Science and Technology (KUST), Wudil after Nigeria’s richest man, Aliko Dangote.
The State Executive Council approved this at its last sitting presided over by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that Aliko Dangote has been the Chancellor of the University for the past few years.
In a statement on Sunday which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York, Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, said renaming of the institution followed recommendation by the …
Sunday saw Jerusalem being thrown into a state of trepidation as some Palestinian groups have threatened to retaliate over the annual rally that sparked a war last year.
Israel deployed 3,000 police on the day that marks its 1967 capture of east Jerusalem, home of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound located on what Jews revere as the Temple Mount.
Flag-waving Jewish nationalists chanting pro-Israel slogans, among them a far-right lawmaker, in the morning visited Al-Aqsa, where Israeli police said several Palestinians threw rocks toward the officers. Isolated clashes also broke out at the Old City’s Damascus Gate where dozens of Jewish …
In a deadly freak accident that occurred during a pandemonium in Rivers State, the Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the death of 31 persons in a stampede that occurred during a church program in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Saturday.
The command also disclosed that those who were injured were “swiftly evacuated to the hospital for immediate medical treatment”.
According to the statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Grace Iringe Koko, preliminary investigations conducted by the command indicate that the “unfortunate incident occurred when the management of Kings Church Assembly organised a crusade which attracted mammoth crowd”.…
At least seven Indian soldiers were killed and 19 others injured following a horrible road accident in the remote Ladakh region, near the country’s disputed border with China, police have confirmed.
Africa Daily News, New York recalls that in June 2020 left at least 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers were killed when the world’s two most populous nations redirected tens of thousands of additional troops into the high-altitude Himalayan region after a deadly hand-to-hand battle
‘Seven soldiers killed, 19 injured in the remote Nubra area,’ a senior police officer in Ladakh told reporters on Saturday evening.
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No fewer than than twenty-six people were declared missing on Sunday morning after a ferry ran out of fuel and sank in bad weather off the coast of Indonesia, officials confirmed.
The country’s search and rescue agency disclosed that the vessel was conveying about 43 people when it capsized in the Makassar Strait, the sea separating the islands of Sulawesi and Borneo.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the news of the accident only reached officials on Saturday, the local head of search and rescue Djuanidi, who like many Indonesians goes by only one name, told reporters.
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The Russian army has confirmed reports on Saturday which stated that it had seized the strategic town of Lyman in eastern Ukraine, on the road to two key cities still under Kyiv’s control.
“Following the joint actions of the units of the militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Russian armed forces, the town of Krasny Liman has been entirely liberated from Ukrainian nationalists,” the defence ministry said in a statement, confirming an announcement a day earlier by pro-Moscow separatists.
Krasny Liman, which had a population of around 20,000 people before the hostilities broke out, is the town’s old …
The Cross River State police has reacted to a bloody incident which led to the death of one at the Akpabuyo/Bakassi/Calabar South APC primaries for the House of Representatives primaries yesterday.
The election was between the Deputy Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mr Joseph Bassey and ex-Commissioner for Transport and Marine, Mr Saviour Nyong.
Eyewitnesses said one of the candidates allegedly hijacked materials for the primary. This, they said angered, supporters of the rival aspirants and resulted in a face-off.
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